September 23, 2016 On September 16, CMS finalized a rule establishing emergency preparedness requirements applicable to seventeen types of providers and suppliers. The rule becomes effective November 15, 2016 and… Read more »
August 8, 2016 On August 2, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a Final Rule implementing the Notice Act’s requirement to provide notice of a patient’s… Read more »
July 11, 2016 In the changing health care marketplace, and with the shift towards value-based alternative payment models, many in the health care community believe that the Stark law (42… Read more »
July 6, 2016 Since the passage of Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), which imposed site-neutral payment reductions on new off-campus hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) that… Read more »
June 30, 2016 The United States saw over 14,000 people die from opioid overdose in 2014. In an effort to stop this epidemic, numerous federal and state agencies have published… Read more »
June 30, 2016 Regulations promulgated by the Virginia Board of Medicine already govern practice requirements for certain anesthesia used in an office setting. Effective July 27, 2016, amendments to these… Read more »
June 16, 2016 In a unanimous decision released today in Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar, the Supreme Court held that the implied certification theory can be… Read more »
June 16, 2016 On June 8, 2016, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released its Mid-Year Update to the Fiscal Year (“FY”) 2016… Read more »
June 13, 2016 On May 13, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010.… Read more »
May 26, 2016 A bill introduced in the House last week—H.R. 5273, the Helping Hospitals Improve Patient Care Act of 2016 (HHIPCA)—would expand grandfathering to some provider-based departments affected by… Read more »
